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Email address on site. @ vs at

by Bryan Douglas
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I see a lot of people not posting their email address correctly on their site. Are you doing this because bots will come along and spam you? For example, rather than listing it as email@hotmail.com you put email (at) hotmail.com

Aren't you worried that the 25% ( maybe more ) of the population doesn't "get it"

I know in my experience, when dealing with any one over the age of 40, they are not very familiar with the web, and may not completely understand to replace the (at) with the @ symbol.

Just curious if you thought you were missing emails and your reasons.

I would almost definitely bet that seniors would have a problem figuring that one out. I deal with a lot of seniors and some of them are just not purchasing computers. Nothing against them, they just come from a different time.

PS. Does anyone know a free place to build a contact us form? Probably solve the problem right there.
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  • Profile picture of the author DogScout
    If spam is a problem, use an encrypted form, to do that correctly you need to be using SSL and are as likely as not to end up displaying, "not all items are secure' warning which is meaningless, but as you said, older web users do not know that.
    I have found I get more spam from having my email at this forum from IM folk that I never opted into than from the places on the web I have it click-able.
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  • Profile picture of the author sainteve21
    Hi

    Generally changing the '@' to 'at' is an attempt to deter email spammer bots

    If you are using Wordpress then I suggest trying this contact form plugin, very easy to setup (even I managed to set it up with no problems!)

    Contact Form 7: Just another contact form plugin for WordPress. Simple but flexible.

    Best of luck

    Steve
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  • Profile picture of the author badboy_Nick
    Originally Posted by Bryan Douglas View Post

    I see a lot of people not posting their email address correctly on their site. Are you doing this because bots will come along and spam you? For example, rather than listing it as email@hotmail.com you put email (at) hotmail.com

    Aren't you worried that the 25% ( maybe more ) of the population doesn't "get it"

    I know in my experience, when dealing with any one over the age of 40, they are not very familiar with the web, and may not completely understand to replace the (at) with the @ symbol.

    Just curious if you thought you were missing emails and your reasons.

    I would almost definitely bet that seniors would have a problem figuring that one out. I deal with a lot of seniors and some of them are just not purchasing computers. Nothing against them, they just come from a different time.

    PS. Does anyone know a free place to build a contact us form? Probably solve the problem right there.
    Here's a great trick. I use an IMAGE of my actual email address. It will be displayed just like info@domain.com ... but you cant click it. Because it's an image spam-bots won't pick it up but normal people don't have a problem sending me an e-mail.

    Any questions let me know

    Nick
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    • Profile picture of the author Bryan Douglas
      Originally Posted by badboy_Nick View Post

      Here's a great trick. I use an IMAGE of my actual email address. It will be displayed just like info@domain.com ... but you cant click it. Because it's an image spam-bots won't pick it up but normal people don't have a problem sending me an e-mail.

      Any questions let me know

      Nick
      That's a pretty good idea. I never thought of that.
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    • Profile picture of the author statquo2010
      This is a good idea.

      Originally Posted by badboy_Nick View Post

      Here's a great trick. I use an IMAGE of my actual email address. It will be displayed just like info@domain.com ... but you cant click it. Because it's an image spam-bots won't pick it up but normal people don't have a problem sending me an e-mail.

      Any questions let me know

      Nick
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    • Profile picture of the author LiamMcIvorMartin
      @badboy, great tip!
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  • Profile picture of the author aa411853
    Do a search for email address hider or something to that effect. There's a lot of javascript functions out there which will make your email appear jumbled to spam bots, but otherwise fine to regular browsers.
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